It Takes A Village to Raze a Village

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Turn 63. Axis. January 16, 1942. MPPs.

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ORIGINAL: Elessar2

Did you spring for the German heavy tanks?

Sorry to say I didn't. I guess I'm not managing my MPPs very well ... just never seems enough for everything I'd like to do. [:(]

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Opening Messages.

1. U-boats sink 82 MPPs headed to Russia and 11 MPPs headed to the UK.
2. Rhodes continues to be a thorn in the side of the allies.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Murmansk Convoys. End of Turn.

1. U-371 loses 5-steps to the troublesome Soviet destroyer squadron (sunk this turn) and runs to the safety of Narvik for reinforcement.
2. U-35 is Trondheim is reinforced +3-steps to 8-steps.
3. U-377 finds and finishes off the Soviet destroyer squadron in an even exchange of 4-steps.
4. U-377, U-81 and U-505 maintain patrol along the Murmansk convoy line hunting for more allied convoys to sink.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Italian Subs. End of Turn.

1. The da Vinci takes more damage from the RN and is down to 3-steps. It successfully limps into Bordeaux.
2. The Axum, also headed to port, maintains station along the UK convoy lines from the South Atlantic.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. German U-boats. Gulf of Guinea.

1. The two German U-boats in the South Atlantic continue their journey north, hopefully headed for reinforcement and upgrades.
2. They continue to move (patrol) along the South Atlantic convoy lines looking to sink what they can.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Aegean Sea. End of Turn.

1. Rhodes continues to be a thorn in the side of the allies and draws a significant reaction from the RN.
2. Also, looks like the Brits have formed an invasion transport to take Rhodes when they succeed in knocking the defending garrison out.
3. This turn, the RN managed to knocked the garrison down to 2-steps (again).
4. The Italians reinforced it back to 5.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. East Africa. End of Turn.

1. East Africa is pretty much a stalemate, for the present at least.
2. However, the allies have the capability to, and I suspect will, bring in more forces and eventually take the area.
3. The upside is if they do then these are forces unavailable for the Med or Europe.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. The Atlantic Wall/Western Front. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. The Eastern Front. Finland. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. The Eastern Front. Army Group North. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. The Eastern Front. Army Group Center. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. The Eastern Front. Army Group South. End of Turn.

1. Again this turn most of Germany's MPPs went to operational movements, reinforcements and upgrades.
2. They only new builds they managed were two Romania garrison with no frills (i.e., no upgrades).
3. Sadly, no heavy tanks yet. [:(]

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Middle East. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Bismarck Archipelago & Solomon Islands. End of Turn.

1. The two amph headed to Rabual and the Solomons made it there. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's raining and they can't land.
2. The KB splits into two carrier division defending the two invasion transports.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Marshall Islands. End of Turn.

1. The Zuikaka is reinforced by +5 to 7-steps.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. China. End of Turn.

1. Attrition attacks nearly destroy a Chinese corps.
2. Japan begins shifting forces from northern China to the south and beyond.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Burma. End of Turn.

1. A Japanese army is formed on the Siam/Burma border.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Singapore & Dutch East Indies. End of Turn.

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Turn 65. Axis. Feb 13, 1942. Philippines. End of Turn.

1. Corregidor is captured.